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...Mickey is a fast burner. He's got the charisma," says Democratic National Committee woman Billie Carr of Houston. "In his soul he believes in what he does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fresh Faces for an Old Struggle | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

...applied to the emerging recovery. The tone of the list has been changing dramatically. Only six months ago, Heller says, economists were calling the recovery "weak, wobbly, puny, pokey, measly, muted and miserable." Now, however, the rebound has suddenly become "rapid, robust, snappy, surging, brisk, bullish and a barn burner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showing Some Real Muscle | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

...next four years saw the issue of divestiture relegated to the back burner of campus activism. For example, 1976 the year in which the United Nations called for complete corporate withdrawal from South Africa came and went with no student protest...

Author: By Jesse M. Fried, | Title: A Long and Winding Road | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

Should CBS approve the project, O'Brien hopes it will air as early as next February. But if the "60 Minutes" parody doesn't appeal to network brass, the Lampoon staff has other projects on the burner. If the projects dies "we might start an arts and crafts project...or a salute to Billy Barty--a very short actor who plays midgets." the club's president said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampy's Funny | 6/8/1983 | See Source »

Sound city management has nosed out jobs as the front-burner issue. Goode reminds voters that as city managing director he negotiated tough contracts with municipal unions. Rizzo trumpets his record as a mayor who cleaned the streets of garbage as well as criminals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Face-Off in Philadelphia | 5/16/1983 | See Source »

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